Poetry news via Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
- My night of joy with the Godfather of Gloom - Spiked
My night of joy with the Godfather of GloomSpiked, UK - 2 hours agoWhether or not his depleted funds were truly the main motivation behind publishing a new book of poetry, recording a couple of albums and setting off on his ...
- Organization seeks talented local teens (The Danville Commercial-News)
Vermilion County teens will have an opportunity this summer to compete on stage for money and a trophy.
- BOOK NOTES: Tribute to the late Jonathan Williams planned - Asheville Citizen-Times
BOOK NOTES: Tribute to the late Jonathan Williams plannedAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 2 hours agoWilliams published more than 50 books, including "The Loco Logodaedalus in Situ" and "Jubilant Thicket." He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry ...
- Black & white (Deccan Herald)
For the first time ever, the revised form of Karnataka Bhagawatha is published in full. The man behind this achievement is Holalkere R Chandrasekhar, writes Krishna Vattam.
- 'Old War' makes connections amid crises - Boston Globe
There's a moment in Elizabeth Bishop's great poem "The Moose" when the poet, drifting off during a bus ride, hears the chatter from the seats behind her merging with the voices of grandparents "talking, in Eternity." That haunted borderline could be ...
- Snapshot of the Convention (Portland Tribune)
Tyler Griffin didn’t originally set out to make the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver part of his vacation, but when the chance came he took it. “It was a coincidence,” said the 19-year-old college student from Lake Oswego. “I was on vacation with my family in the ...
- Remembering Okot p’Bitek’s ‘comic singing’ - Daily Sun
Daily SunRemembering Okot p’Bitek’s ‘comic singing’Daily Sun, Nigeria - 1 hour agoP'Bitek was one of the most vigorous and original voices in East African 20th-century poetry. His satirical monologues dealt with the conflict between ...
- Exercising his independence: Man, 99, heading to Ireland - MetroWest Daily News
Exercising his independence: Man, 99, heading to IrelandMetroWest Daily News, MA - 35 minutes agoA bit of a Renaissance man, Ridge enjoys music, painting, reading and writing poetry, and repairing watches and clocks. He had a successful business as a ...
- Rushdie wows 'em with wild tales - Malaysia Star
Rushdie wows 'em with wild talesMalaysia Star, Malaysia - 1 hour ago“There are so many other books that I’ve been promising myself to read.” Born in India, educated in Britain and now living in New York, Rushdie reads poetry ...
- James Lee Burke's New Orleans - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.ukJames Lee Burke's New OrleansTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 3 hours agoChuck Berry’s lyrics remain reportage as well as rock ’n’ roll poetry. Wedding-cake mansions sit little more than a spit away from paint-peeled clapboard ...
- Religion: Speakers (The Herald-Mail)
St. John's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Scott Bellows will preach Sunday at the 8 and 10:15 a.m. communion services. The summer choir will sing at the later service.
- Impact of books influences lives - Arizona Daily Star
Metamorphosis — change — is the theme of the Pima County Public Library's adult summer reading program, which ends July 19, and a larger library program that continues through April 2009. In the latter program, the library is asking Tucson ...
- The ethereal world of radio poetry - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.ukThe ethereal world of radio poetryguardian.co.uk, UK - 48 minutes agoThat twitching into life of the radio, the nonchalant way it transmits beyond the hypnotic tumult of Larkin's seascape. And this is how the sea and the ...
- Review: Dylan demonstrates virtuosity (Louisville Courier-Journal)
On Saturday night at Horseshoe Casino's outdoor arena a packed crowd witnessed that rarest of all spectacles: a Pulitzer Prize winner rocking out.
- Mary Washington professor is named poet laureate (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, is Virginia's new poet laureate, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today. Emerson, who grew up in Chatham in Pittsylvania County, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for "Late Wife," her third book of poetry. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in English and earned a master's degree in ...
|
|
Refinance your Mortgage today and save!
Home Mortgage
November 2007 Mortgage News
|